Said it before, I'll say it again, there should be some sort of population provision where no state may let a single city, or even a pair of cities, determine the entire electoral vote for that state. New York State has 19 million people, and 8.3 million of them live in New York City. Same kind of story with LA and San Francisco in California, and Chicago in this thread's example. Basically, a handful of cities get together every four years and decree "This is how we will rule over All of America!" and if the ENTIRE rest of the nation does not unite against them, they get their way.
I know, Electoral College, State's Rights to Distribute their Electors as they see fit, etc. etc. etc. But we already have precedent where the States do NOT get to undermine the Union Itself with their laws, and that's what is happening here, frankly.
In some ways the electoral college was there to convince the states to sign on, it would have been a nice little provision that they would have to adopt a similar voting style, say, 50 years down the road?
Personally I think the electoral votes of a state should be distributed by proportion of counties won. This would require the Democrats to drastically moderate their positions, while allowing the Right to become slightly more governmentally conservative.
Expand the electoral college to the state elections, revise gerrymandering rules to involve input from a commission of county executives and sheriffs, require a rule for rotating the state capital every 6-8 years between county seats and independent cities to decentralize state power and state lobbying firms, and repeal the 17th Amendment to decentralize news and regional lobbying firms. Local politics is where we started and local politics is where we need to return.
We had one. Its called the Constitution. To check other states from undermining the Union, a state had the right to leave. It was a voluntary union. If California and New York want to run the nation, the other states could leave and still can today. It would not surprise me if states leave the union in our lifetime
Said it before, I'll say it again, there should be some sort of population provision where no state may let a single city, or even a pair of cities, determine the entire electoral vote for that state. New York State has 19 million people, and 8.3 million of them live in New York City. Same kind of story with LA and San Francisco in California, and Chicago in this thread's example. Basically, a handful of cities get together every four years and decree "This is how we will rule over All of America!" and if the ENTIRE rest of the nation does not unite against them, they get their way.
I know, Electoral College, State's Rights to Distribute their Electors as they see fit, etc. etc. etc. But we already have precedent where the States do NOT get to undermine the Union Itself with their laws, and that's what is happening here, frankly.
In some ways the electoral college was there to convince the states to sign on, it would have been a nice little provision that they would have to adopt a similar voting style, say, 50 years down the road?
Personally I think the electoral votes of a state should be distributed by proportion of counties won. This would require the Democrats to drastically moderate their positions, while allowing the Right to become slightly more governmentally conservative.
Expand the electoral college to the state elections, revise gerrymandering rules to involve input from a commission of county executives and sheriffs, require a rule for rotating the state capital every 6-8 years between county seats and independent cities to decentralize state power and state lobbying firms, and repeal the 17th Amendment to decentralize news and regional lobbying firms. Local politics is where we started and local politics is where we need to return.
We had one. Its called the Constitution. To check other states from undermining the Union, a state had the right to leave. It was a voluntary union. If California and New York want to run the nation, the other states could leave and still can today. It would not surprise me if states leave the union in our lifetime